Lakers in Trouble

With the loss against the Phoenix Suns, the Los Angeles Lakers fell to 6-12 without Luke Walton.  With little time remaining in the regular season, the Lakers’ playoff ranking hangs in the balance. 
 

On Friday the Lakers lost to the Sacramento Kings, failing to make any effort at a defensive stop.  On Sunday the Lakers picked up the defense and held the explosive Suns to under 100, but didn’t have enough firepower on the offensive side to beat the Pacific Division leaders. 
 

The Lakers are now 33-27, good for sixth in the Western Conference.  The Clippers and Nuggets trail the Lakers by only a few games as it stands.  With Injuries piling up, and no moves as of the trade deadline, the Lakers are apparently just going to let their problems work themselves out.
 

Phil Jackson normally recommends that an inspirational book be placed on problems for thirty minutes a day, but the Lakers are quite beyond that.     
 

If they can’t find whatever they had in the beginning of the season, the Lakers will soon be in a tight race for a playoff spot.
 

Lakers tickets for regular season games are getting fewer and fewer, and before long StubHub.com will be selling NBA playoff tickets.  Will the Lakers be an 8 seed, or can they hold on to sixth?  Only time will tell.    

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Scottie to be Beamed up to Lakers?

Lakers coach Phil Jackson contacted 41 year-old Scottie Pippen over the weekend.  The phone conversation was apparently aimed at deciphering the conditioning and fitness Jackson’s former player.
 

If the Lakers can’t get Walton or Odon back at full strength by the end of the regular season, Lakers fans- and Phil Jackson, apparently- will be missing a versatile small forward come playoff time.  That is, unless an old timer with one more season in him can step up.
 

In a world where a retired UFC former champion in his mid forties can take the title from a young mutton-chopped buck (as one Randy Coutre did Saturday night), and Rocky can convince a boxing commission he is capable of fighting again, I have to believe the people are ready for Scottie. 
 

If you’d like to see what the old man has left, think about getting Lakers tickets at your source for unlikely comebacks, StubHub.com.       

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